PBGH In the News

Please see below for a list of articles in which the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health (PBGH) or its programs have recently been featured.

Five Minutes With Diane McClune, operations director, Pittsburgh Business Group on Health
June 25, 2010, Pittsburgh Business Group on Health

Special Forces: Employers work to refine pharmacy strategies to head off financial impact of coming explosion in specialty market
May 2, 2010, Employee Benefit News

What employers want to see in health care reform
March 12, 2010, Pittsburgh Business Times

Insurers, providers offer ideas for reform
February 17, 2010, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Consumer-driven health plans gain steam
April 1, 2009, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The employers who are most successful at containing health-care costs are doing it without raising workers' premiums. Instead, they're using cash incentives to entice employees toward consumer-driven health plans, such as medical savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements.

Employers getting more strict on health-care eligibility
March 25, 2009, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Employers are considering, and implementing, dependent eligibility audits to assure that they are providing benefits to only qualified dependents and are not paying benefits for people who are not eligible," said Christine Whipple, executive director of the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health.

Diabetes: Patient population younger locally, report says
November 23, 2008, The Tribune-Democrat

Business group questions UPMC's new hospital plan
November 21, 2008, Pittsburgh Business Times

Diabetes treatment costs rise
November 6, 2008, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PHC4 needs quick action from lawmakers (PDF)
October 3, 2008, Pittsburgh Business Times

Medical tourism represents a $2.1 billion business, study shows
September 23, 2008, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Business health plan slows drug costs again
September 19, 2008, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Business news briefs

Businesses share successful ideas to reduce health care costs
September 5, 2008, AHIP Solutions SmartBrief

Creative health-cost cuts aired (PDF)
September 5, 2008, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' Headlines Delivered

Creative health-cost cuts aired
September 5, 2008, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Aggressive Alcoa holds health costs in check
September 5, 2008, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Health insurance plan notes tiny cost boost
June 27, 2008, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Building Foundation for Change (PDF)
Fall/Winter 2007, Diabetes Ten City Challenge Newsline

Flu shot flap just one symptom of ailing health care
December 28, 2007 - January 3, 2008, Pittsburgh Business Times

Pain Relief for Prescription Drug Costs
October/November 2007, Benefits & Compensation Solutions

Pittsburgh Building Foundation for Change
Fall/Winter 2007, The Diabetes Ten City Challenge Newsline

Employer-led group beats national saving costs on Rx
August 30, 2007, Employee Benefit News

The cost of care at UPMC II
July 7, 2007, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Health care cost report should serve as employer call to action
June 29, 2007, Pittsburgh Business Times

Amid rapidly rising drug costs, businesses look to cut spending
June 22, 2007, Pittsburgh Business Times

Treating Type 2 diabetes less expensive in Pittsburgh, study shows
April 1, 2007, Pittsburgh Business Times

Expert: Consumers need better access to health-care info
February 28, 2007, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

West Penn tries to stop UPMC's Mercy deal
September 29, 2006, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As health costs rise, consumers must get smarter, speaker says
September 14, 2006, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Healthy results for businesses
August 24, 2006, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Local companies save $12.7 million in drug costs
August 24, 2006, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Business group's prescription costs lower than national
August 23, 2006, Pittsburgh Business Times

Employers tap pharmacists to deliver diabetes care
April 1, 2006, DOC News

Cost of care to be more visible
February 10, 2006, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review



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